Hello Mark. Thank you for providing us with an intriguing voice (and a distinct look) through your poetry; I recognise the craft involved.

Michael Shepherd, who initiated this Forum, wrote of it that “It’s so good to ‘hear’ each voice here; it seems to magnify the value of poetry and of praise.”

On “this most incurious of Forums” (to quote Peter Blumsom), can I use my curiosity to ask what I hope are thought-provoking questions: What do you value; what do you praise, and what do you question? I am rather hoping that the prose writer (rather than the poet) may provide the reply!

This prose writer appears to have writers block! I shall attempt to reply sincerely without the self-imposed pressure of a seeming lack of any real practical value.

It could be that the negative force upon me is overwhelming, yet in faith it has no power to overwhelm. As I write, the value of this is of absolute significance. The eyes are wide. The water of I weeps and the conception of innocence is still innocent.

I praise the illumination behind the screenplay word dance. Goggle eyed by google while swimming in the same stock of knowledge, without the pitiful stocks imprisonment of a clamped I.

Does this mark the end of attempted poetry and the beginning of bad prose? Maybe I'm still blocked, I ask myself, how to be free?

Thank you for sharing the inspiration of your words, openness and sincerity.

“As I write, the value of this is of absolute significance”.

“I praise the illumination behind the screenplay word dance”.

Question: “How to be free?”

Goggle-eyed by Google while

swimming

in the same Stock
of knowledge, without
the pitiful Stocks imprisonment of a clamped

I

I have a postcard from the National Portrait Gallery depicting a Samuel Beckett figure - who possibly also represents the expectation of the world - directing an actor in a scene from Waiting for Godot. The caption says “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

I feel we are all attempting to be unclamped (you are in good company);
and that when we feel most clamped, we are always being invited in faith to the practice of unclamping.

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